Anchor mechanism for boats.



N0. 663.!74. Patented Dec. 4, I900.

M. P. HUY.

ANCHOR MECHANISM FOR BOATS.

(Application filed June 9, 1900.)

(No Model.)

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' NITED STATES ATENT FFICE.

MARIUS P. HOY, OF ROSEDALE, WASHINGTON, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO OHAUNCEY S. UPRIGHT, OF TACOMA, WASHINGTON.

ANCHOR MECHANISM FOR BOATS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 663,174. dated December 4. 1900.

Original application filed June 9, 1899, Serial No. 719,995. Divided andthis application filed June 9, 1900. Serial No.19,'778.

tNo model.)

T l m it may O O 'L: chain, when the anchor is not in use, lies in Be it known that I, MARIUS P. HOY, acitithe said groove, while the anchor 8, attached zen of the United States, residingat Rosedale, to the 'end thereof, is preferably hung upon in the county of Pierce and State of VVasha-hook, as 9, secured to the bow of the boat.

ington, have invented certain new and use- The anchor and chain may be of anydesired ful Improvements in Anchor Mechanism for construction and are made of a size to corre- Boats; and I do hereby declare the following spond with the size of the boat uponwhich they to be a full, clear, and exact description of the are used. The inner end of the chain extends invention, such as will enable others skilled into the exterior of the boat and may be lo- 10 in the art to which it appertains to make and cated in a box or casing, as at 10, formed in use the same. the interior of the boat. When it is desired My invention relates to improvements in to use the anchor for holding the boat at any anchor mechanism for boats, and particularly given point, the anchor is released from the for life-boats. hook 9 and permitted to drop into the water. i I5 It consists of certain novel constructions, The chain is then allowed to pay out from combinations, and arrangements of parts, theinsideof the boat nntilthe anchor obtains as will be hereinafter fully described and a suitable hold upon the bottom of the water claimed. upon which the boat is floating. By this ar- In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 rangementit willbe seenthat the pull upon 20 represents a side elevation of a life-boat, a the anchor-chain is so arranged that it has portion of the same being broken away and not sufficient leverage upon the bow of the shown in section to reveal the manner of boat to depress the same in the wateror cause mountingthe anchor mechanism. Fig. 2 repwaves to break over the prow. When it is resents a vertical transverse section through desired to raise the anchor, the chainis pulled 25 the boat on a line with the anchor-tube. in over the pulley 4 toa suitable extent until My improved anchor mechanism maybe apthe anchor approaches the boat, and then by plied to boats of various kinds; but, as illuspassing a suitable grapple beneath the bottrated in the drawings, it is preferably adapt- .tom of the boat the chain or anchor may be ed for use in connection with life-boats congrasped and hauled to the upper side of the 30 structed in accordance with an application boat and hung upon the hook 9. The chain filed on the 9th day of June, 1899, Serial No. may then be made sufficiently taut to lie 719,995, and is a divisionof said application. snugly in the groove 6.

In attaching an anchor to a boat I find it It will be apparent that this mechanism may preferable to so locate the same that the pull be applied to boats of various constructions 35 of the anchor-chain will not be directly upon without departing from the spirit of the inthe bow of the boat, so as to tend to draw the vention, the essential features being the use same beneath the water or waves thereof. I of a tube arranged about midway between therefore, as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings, the prow and the center of the boat and means pass a vertically arranged tube, as at l, for carrying the chain and supporting the 0 through the boat 2, the said tube being open anchor.

at its lower end and extending to a point near The parts of my invention are exceedingly the top of the boat. Near the upper end of simple and yet are very eifective for accomthe tube an enlargementis formed, as 3,adaptplishing the purposes desired. ed to receive a pulley or sprocket-wheel 4, Having thus described my invention, what 45 over which the chain 5 of the anchor is adapt- I claim asnew, and desire to secure by Letters 5 ed to pass. The chain extends from the pul- Patent, is leydownwardly through thetubel and thence 1. An anchor mechanism for boats, comalong a groove 6, formed in the under edge prising an anchor, achain carrying the same, of the keel 7 of the boat. The groove 6 exan inclosingtnbe arranged in the boat for re- 50 tends to the prow of the boat, and the anchorceiving the anchor-chain and extending up- I00 wardly through the boat, the said tube being open at the bottom to the water, a pulleyhousing at the top of the tube, a pulley located in said housing, the said housing having an opening through which the chain may pass into the boat so that the anchor may be hoisted or lowered from the inside of theboat, substantially as described.

2 An anchor mechanism for boats, comprising an anchor, a chain carrying the same, a vertical tube arranged in the hull or body of the boat, open to the water at its lower end and extending a suitable distance above the water interiorly of the boat, a sprocket wheel or pulley arranged at the upper end of the tube for movably supporting the chain, and a hook upon the prow of the boat, for supporting the anchor when not in use, the said chain being adapted, when the anchor is secured to the hook, to lie in a groove formed in the keel of the boat, substantially as described.

2 extends forward to the prow of the boat, the said tube being arranged'at a point about midway between the bow and center of the boat, a pulley mounted in the upper end of the tube over which the chain may be pulled for raising or lowering the anchor, a box or casing in the boat for receiving the loose end ,of the chain, and a hook upon the prow of the boat for receiving-the anchor when not in I use, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

M ARIUS P. l-IOY.

Witnesses:

FRANK J. MILLER, W. A. PARISH. 

